Is my file uploaded when converting PDF to Plain text?

No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your device, there is no server to upload to, and the page works offline once loaded.

Is PDF to Plain text conversion free?

Yes, with no account, no watermark and no file limit per day. frogConvert is open source and there is no server cost to recover, because your device does the work.

How large a file can I convert?

Up to 2 GB for a single file, 500 MB total per batch, and 300 files at once. The practical limit is your device's memory, since everything is processed locally.

Convert PDF to Plain text

Extracts the text layer from a PDF and discards all layout.

Convert PDF to Plain text →

Runs on: pdf.js, running in this tab
Steps: Direct, a single conversion
Input: .pdf · application/pdf
Output: .txt · text/plain
Uploads: None. The file never leaves your device.

What to expect

Reading order is inferred from position, so multi-column pages often interleave. A scanned PDF has no text layer and returns nothing.

Why convert PDF without uploading

Most online converters take your file, send it to their servers, convert it there and hand back a download link. That means your document sits on someone else's disk, subject to their retention policy and their breaches. It also means you cannot use them offline, and cannot use them at all for anything confidential.

frogConvert does the conversion in the page itself, with pdf.js. There is no upload step because there is no server. You can disconnect from the network and it still works.

About the formats

PDF

Portable Document Format fixes text, fonts and images to an exact page layout, so a PDF looks the same everywhere it opens. That fidelity is also why it resists editing: a PDF stores positioned glyphs, not paragraphs. More about PDF files.

Plain text

Unstructured UTF-8 characters with no styling, no images and no layout. Nothing about a .txt file can break, which is exactly why anything converted into it arrives stripped. More about Plain text files.

Common questions

Is my file uploaded when converting PDF to Plain text?: No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. The file never leaves your device, there is no server to upload to, and the page works offline once loaded.
Is PDF to Plain text conversion free?: Yes, with no account, no watermark and no file limit per day. frogConvert is open source and there is no server cost to recover, because your device does the work.
How large a file can I convert?: Up to 2 GB for a single file, 500 MB total per batch, and 300 files at once. The practical limit is your device's memory, since everything is processed locally.
What is lost converting PDF to Plain text?: Reading order is inferred from position, so multi-column pages often interleave. A scanned PDF has no text layer and returns nothing.